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What Should Betsy DeVos Do at Education?

Public schools should have the same disciplinary autonomy and other flexibility that charters have.

Dec. 12, 2016 3:21 p.m. ET

Regarding Jason Riley’s “Why Trump’s Education Pick Scares Unions” (Upward Mobility, Nov. 30): I am an urban public-school teacher who believes that children benefit from educational choice. I work in a right-to-work state where unions are irrelevant. While I support charter, private, independent and parochial school alternatives, I also know that choice isn’t a solution unto itself, nor are vouchers. Most of my students don’t have computers at home to complete online applications. Very few of my students have parents who are willing to make an educational choice or complete an application on behalf of their child,...